On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 05:42:25PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Donnerstag, 22. Oktober 2009, Andreas Tille wrote: > > Package: education-thin-client > > ==> If there is no strong reason to use Depends here than this should > > definitely turned to a task tasks/thin-client. > > I think so...
we definitely should *not* make a tasksel task out of it. we do not use tasksel tasks in the ltsp chroot at all, and i don't see any reason to do so. i find it confusing that we make metapackages and tasksel tasks that are supposed to do the same thing, personally. i definitely recall it not working as a recommends, but can't recall exactly what the issue was at the moment. if recommends aren't met, we need to make sure that nothing assumes those packages are installed, such as debian-edu-config hooks and such. if people want to switch it back to recommends, go ahead. i don't have the time to test it. you've been warned. :) initially, i tried making education-thin-client a package with tasks just like all the others, but that caused something in the installer to explode when checks for education-thin-client matched checks for education-thin-client-server, and it tried to install the education-thin-client task or package when "Thin Client Server" was a selected profile, which was disasterous. i don't know exactly where those checks were, but i recall it using grep too loosely. the whole method of abusing recommends to avoid installability problems leaves me with an unsettled feeling. apparently, it was even a release goal for lenny to not have unsatisfyable recommends in main http://release.debian.org/lenny/goals.txt: # No unmet recommends relations inside main Advocate: Luk Claes Description: Packages in main should be able to satisfy all recommend relations in main. Bug-User: [email protected] Bug-Tag: goal-recommends Bug-Url: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/[email protected]&tag=goal-recommends State: confirmed live well, vagrant -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
